I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKSI had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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Why do you all push us around?
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
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I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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